Menu du jour jam making : 14 Recipes


  • Recipe Making Jam
    Making Jam
    As well as an over abundance of zucchini at the moment we also have a huge crop of nectarines.  Normally we would also have had apricots and mulberries, but the crazy weather caused the apricots to split and the mulberries, the few we did get,[...]
  • Recipe Making Jam
    Making Jam
    When I was little I very rarely ate store bought Jam. The simple reason was my grandmother seemed to have/be making a never ending supply of jam, mostly strawberry. I remember standing on a stool as a little girl, wearing a handmade apron, watching[...]
  • Recipe Tips for Making Pineapple Jam
    Tips for Making Pineapple Jam
    This post is rather late as the lunar Chinese New Year (CNY) is just 5 days away. I have been busy with my orders and couldn't find time for this write up. Stealing some time now to get this done. I hope this post can be of some help this year or the[...]
  • Recipe Making Strawberry Jam without Pectin
    Making Strawberry Jam without Pectin
    As soon as I popped that first warm berry in my mouth in the field, I began dreaming about jam. I pictured little jam jars lined up in the kitchen, each filled with the sweet freshness that had just exploded into my mouth. I couldn't wait to get[...]
  • Recipe OF SOAKING FRUITS, MAKING WINE AND HOMEMADE JAM...I can smell X'mas already!
    OF SOAKING FRUITS, MAKING WINE AND HOMEMADE JAM...I can smell X'mas already!
    Was that a weird title? Maybe yes, maybe no. Let me tell you what I have been doing all these days, since last Thursday, since the last post of mine :-) I have been trying to be proactive (what a change!) and preserve some fruits[...]
  • Recipe Making the Christmas Ham
    Making the Christmas Ham
    Well now.  It's been a few weeks since I've had time to put fingers to keyboard, which is entirely down to that thing called "Christmas" intervening.  I've sat down this morning and made a list of what I want to tell you all about - and[...]
  • Recipe Bread Making ? Life?s Simple Pleasure
    Bread Making ? Life?s Simple Pleasure
    There are few things more pleasurable and simplistic in life than a large hunk of fresh bread, lightly toasted and served smothered with your favourite spread. This is particularly true if the bread has come to be at your hand; lovingly[...]
  • Recipe Provenance, Perseverance and Preserves ? Wild Strawberry and Raspberry Jam Recipe
    Provenance, Perseverance and Preserves ? Wild Strawberry and Raspberry Jam Recipe
    Could anything be more comforting than homemade Jam. Using a mixture of summer fruits and berries, I endeavor to create vats of molten jam with pleasing results … Now I?m going to end up sounding like a broken record on the topic of food[...]
  • Recipe

    We had grapes we needed to do something with. If there is anything more frustrating than letting hard won or expensive, or the combo of the two items go to waste, well, I'm not sure what it would be.  Last night I[...]
  • Recipe Jalapeno Jelly
    Jalapeno Jelly
    What you see in the picture above is the whole entire reason that I made jalapeno jelly this year. And to be honest my jelly was not as hot I would have liked it.  But there is a very legitimate reason why. Let me tell you a little story about the[...]